Who Needs "Comprehensive Reform"?

One of the strawmen that the amnesty supporters (like Bennion Spencer) have thrown out in response to the demands that America enforce it's immigration law is that you simply can not deport the millions of illegal immigrants that are in this country. Well as this story points out, you don't need to deport them....if the conditions are right.

DALLAS — Illegal immigrants are returning home to Mexico in numbers not seen for decades — and the Mexican government may have to deal with a crush on its social services and lower wages once the immigrants arrive.

The Mexican Consulate's office in Dallas is seeing increasing numbers of Mexican nationals requesting paperwork to go home for good, especially parents who want to know what documentation they'll need to enroll their children in Mexican schools.

"Those numbers have increased percentage-wise tremendously," said Enrique Hubbard, the Mexican consul general in Dallas. "In fact, it's almost 100 percent more this year than it was the previous two years."

The illegal immigrant population in the U.S. has dropped 11 percent since August of last year, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Its research shows 1.3 million illegal immigrants have returned to their home countries.

I have no doubts that the weakening economy has a lot to do with it, but let's not discount the effect of the ICE raids that took place in states like Minnesota and Iowa in recent months. No one arrested in these raids were for illegal entry into the United States....they were all arrested for identity theft! Another contributing factor to the mass exodus has to do with strengthened immigration legislation being introduced in states like Oklahoma and Arizona.

The fact that 1.3 million illegal immigrants have left of their own volition tells you that there is no need for the type of mass deportations that people like Lindsay Graham, John McCain and Bennion Spencer (see - I can be tough on the Republicans too) say will be necessary to curb the problems we are currently seeing as a result of illegal immigration. All we need to do is enforce the existing laws and the problem will take care of itself.

Then once we have control of our borders, we can talk about a real comprehensive reform that will allow more people to come into the US quickly and legally.